For two years now, the number of people living in rural areas of the country has increased, adding on average 35,000 residents per year.
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Rural residents struggle to pay rent
While much has been reported on the ever-increasing rents in urban areas around the United States, rural residents face the same pressures to pay for housing yet have fewer resources to draw on to overcome these challenges.
Student debt hinders millennials ability to achieve homeownership, new study shows
A new federal study demonstrates that about 400,000 young adults struggle with student debt to the extent that they cannot afford a mortgage.
California’s Central Valley outpaces coastal areas on some economic measures
Job growth and population gains in California’s mostly rural Central Valley surpassed the same measures in the state’s more populous Bay Area and Southern region, which some analysts say could be encouraging trends for the coming year.
Low-income rural renters face worsening affordable housing crisis
Low-income residents renting homes in rural areas face an ever shrinking supply of affordable housing, which experts say will only worsen in the coming years.